Philosopher Grandma

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Susan Hawthorne

An pile of buttons in greens, grays, and blues; spools of thread and a pin in the background.

Fun with buttons, tots thru teens

A child strums a pink guitar in front of a stone building, with a box to collect bills.

Are you listening to your grandchildren?

An orange cat's face, looking contemptuously into the camera.

Is contempt OK? What to tell the grandchildren

The heads of two toothy, open-mouthed dinosaurs, apparently enjoying a joke.

Should grandparents put up with potty mouth?

Two young girls in a grassy scene, the younger one, facing the camera, appears angry.

The grandkids are fighting!

A boy wearing headphones looks out an airplane window at a canyon.

Long-distance grandparenting: Talk before you travel